Vascular reconstruction and complications in living donor liver transplantation in infants weighing less then 6 kilograms: The Kyoto experience

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1224-1232

  Shirouzu, Yasumasa ^a   Kasahara, Mureo ^a   Morioka, Daisuke ^a   Sakamoto, Seisuke ^a   Taira, Kaoru ^a   Uryuhara, Kenji ^a   Ogawa, Kohei ^a   Takada, Yasutsugu ^a   Egawa, Hiroto ^a   Tanaka, Koichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; VASCULAR SURGERY; VEIN DISEASE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746916108     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20800     Document Type: Article

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